Talk of the Town

Carrie Seidman, a reporter, critic and columnist whose career ran from The New York Times to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, hosts Talk of the Town, the monthly WSLR News roundtable held before a live audience at Fogartyville and broadcast on WSLR 96.5 FM and YouTube. Each hour seats a handful of officials, activists, academics, policy analysts or investigative journalists for a close look at a local issue, with room for wit. Recent sessions show the range. Manatee County Commissioner George Kruse, Holly Bullard of the Florida Policy Institute and Martin Hyde took on Amendment 3. A month later Cathy Antunes, Jason Garcia and conservative activist Conni Brunni weighed the growing sway of PACs in local races.